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Clearaudio Emotion CMB or JA Michell TecnoDec?

Hello,

I plan on doing a trade-in deal with my local shop to upgrade my TT. I've narrowed my options to the Clearaudio Emotion CMB Combo (which comes with a Clearudio Maestro cart) or a JA Michell TecnoDec with a Grado Sonata cart.

Which would you recommend? I'd like to slowly upgrade the table in the future (cart, arm, tweaks, whatever), so please consider that factor.

Thanks for your help!
cstpeter

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cytocycle
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The CMB bearing is amazing and the Clearaudio cart makes that a really good deal. The TecnoDec is also an excellent table.

unfortunately both tables are not really upgradeable other than arms... and you could put a Technoarm on the Tecnodec, but you would be better off upgrading to Gyro..

If you want to upgrade the Clearaudio you need to move up to another Clearaudio table which can be upgraded.

Both tables you have chosen are excellent tables in their own right and are not low end tables, but they have already been maximized with tweaks. Buy one of them and then use the money to buy records or a good record cleaner...
cytocycle
1,043 posts
 
Or instead you move up to the Clearaudio Performance Table combo..once again spend as much as you can on the initial table because upgrades are more expensive. Otherwise a Champion Series Clearaudio Table lets you do all sorts of upgrades.
cytocycle
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Congrats! The killer MM cart really seals those deals!
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